Naming ourselves, becoming neurodivergent scholars

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Bertilsdotter Rosqvist, H., Hultman, L., Wiklund, S. Ö., Nygren, A., Storm, P., & Sandberg, G. (2023). Naming ourselves, becoming neurodivergent scholars. Disability & Society, 40(1), 128-147. https://doi.org/10.1080/09687599.2023.2271155

Publication date: 23 Oct 2023 Added to AutiHub: 4 Jul 2026 Type: Article Article language: English
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  1. Hanna Bertilsdotter Rosqvist *
  2. Lill Hultman
  3. Sofia Österborg Wiklund
  1. Anna Nygren
  2. Palle Storm
  3. Greta Sandberg

Abstract

In this paper we seek to restory what has been storied as "the problem of ADHD".Informed by calls for a critical ADHD studies, we explore the possibilities of ADHD collective autoethnographic storytelling.Together we (en)counter narratives of ADHD.Within our collective writing space, from our ADHD/AuDHD bodyminds, we seek to re-story our ADHD/AuDHD.We map a field of critical ADHD research within social sciences and point out problems of outsider perspectives, stressing a need for insider perspectives.Our data consist of collective authoethnographic writings about ADHD.From the data we have explored our experiences of (En)Countering ADHD narratives, and a transition process which we refer to as from "broken NT-scholars" to neurodivergent scholars, stressing the importance of ADHD:ers as independent as well as collective agents, and ADHD as epistemological standpoint within research. Points of interest Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is commonly talked about by people without ADHD. People with ADHD (ADHDers) are important in knowledge production about ADHD. This research is based on writings about ADHD by researchers with their own experiences of ADHD. We talk about ADHD together and try to find new ways of talking about ADHD which is more matched with our own experiences of ADHD. We talk about experiences of ADHD stigma and possibilities of knowledge production about ADHD by ADHDers and groups of ADHDers.

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